Summary: Newly discovered young CORE-SINEs in marsupial genomes
Maruo Munemasa a
, Masato Nikaido a
, Hidenori Nishihara a
, Stephen Donnellan b
,
Christopher C. Austin c
, Norihiro Okada a,
a
Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
b
Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, SA 5000, Australia
c
Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, LA 70803, USA
Received 3 July 2007; received in revised form 2 October 2007; accepted 4 October 2007
Received by Takashi Gojobori
Available online 12 October 2007
Abstract
Although recent mammalian genome projects have uncovered a large part of genomic component of various groups, several repetitive
sequences still remain to be characterized and classified for particular groups. The short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) distributed